Research Article

A Comparison between Cure Model and Recursive Partitioning: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Iranian Female with Breast Cancer

Table 3

Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) of a simulation study for a population of size 1000 observations and also with the shape parameter of size 2.

Cure rate
0%15%30%

Model without interaction
 Censoring rate
  40% PMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRP
1397.11482.91802.11915.22256.12525.1
  60%PMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRP
926.9975.81106.61181.61312.61309.9
  80%PMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRP
489.3519.3550.6572.7613.6650.6

Model with interaction
 Censoring rate
  40%PMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRP
2583.82209.82793.42442.13180.73032.7
  60%PMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRP
1621.31492.21683.71416.01813.71525.5
  80%PMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRPPMCMMoBRP
730.0625.0758.9635.1782.9693.4